The Tenth Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: “The Balance of Global Public and Private Power: A Tale of Two Worlds” featuring John Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. (October 25, 2018)

Afghanistan, South Asia, and the West: A Conversation with Professor William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy at Australia National University’s Asia- Pacific College of Diplomacy. (September 15, 2017)

Panel Discussion: "#MeToo and the National Security Space, Intel, Cyber and Gov’t" featuring: Tara Heidger, SIPA '19 and GAAPP '19, Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Antonia Chayes, Professor of Practice of International Politics and Law, The Fletcher School of International Affairs, Tufts University, Rachael Sullivan, SIPA '18Nora Bensahel, Distinguished Scholar, American University and Mara Karlin, Associate Professor of the Practice of Strategic Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University ( February 9, 2018)

The Tenth Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: “The Balance of Global Public and Private Power: A Tale of Two Worlds” featuring John Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. (October 25, 2018)

Film Screening: “The United Nations: Last Station Before Hell,” (December 2, 2015) V. Page Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Department of Political Science

The Tenth Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: “The Balance of Global Public and Private Power: A Tale of Two Worlds”. (October 25, 2018) Jack L. Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Panel Discussion: "Media in the Age of Trump” (October 22, 2018) featuring: John Avlon (CNN), James Freeman (WSJ), Danielle Pletka (AEI), Jim Rutenberg (NYT), and Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

Book Talk at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (January 10, 2018): Human Rights Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2017) co-edited by Jack L. Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department, Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri

Book Talk: "The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails" by Susan Woodward, Professor at the Political Science Program at CUNY (October 17, 2017)

Chaos in the Liberal Order (Columbia University Press, 2018) Edited by Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane N. Labrosse.

Virginia Gamba, United Nations Assistant Secretary General, “Reflections on Investigations into the Renewed Use of Chemical Weapons,” March 22, 2017

The Ninth Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations : “Revisiting Hiroshimain Iran: What the Public Really Thinks About Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Non-Combatants” ( April 11, 2018) featuring Scott Sagan, Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University & Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation

Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) Class of 2017

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Panel Discussion: "Media in the Age of Trump” (October 22, 2018) featuring: John Avlon (CNN), James Freeman (WSJ), Danielle Pletka (AEI), Jim Rutenberg (NYT), and Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

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